Mashup Madness

I’ve been thinking about information I found in Any Answers around the incidence of HMRC enquiries. It struck me later that HMRC could really help the profession if it was to provide detailed statistics about enquiries. It could start with high level data about the overall numbers of enquiries started, concluded and how those are spread geographically. I’d say by region and then down to county and town levels. I’d have this reported quarterly. An analysis of trades enquired upon would... Read Full Story

In the world of Web 2.0, one of the more appreciated feature is the possibility to mix applications. In the last six month we have written about lots of mashup applications...but there is someone that has done a great work...reviewing more than 2000 different mashups! i'm speaking about Programmable Web, a Web 2.0 directory focused on this kind of applications. You can find every kind of mushups, from maps to travel, from video to news, from shopping to messaging. You can have an overview of... Read Full Story

Yahoo just went live with Yahoo Pipes, a service that allows you to create your own mashups. Pipes provides a drag and drop editor that lets you find data sources, mix them up and spit them out - in short, a way to combine feeds in different ways. Examples include an NYTimes-Flickr mashup that matches NYTimes headlines to relevant images, and an aggregated news alert of Yahoo, Google, MSN, Findory, Bloglines and Technorati. The service is social, in the sense that you can have an avatar... Read Full Story

It’s quite easy to get stuck when searching for housing online, but it’s damn hard to find the right tool for the right job. Particularly if you are out of time and don’t want to investigate what every “quick-n-dirty” solution a website has to offer you. To get things done, you need inspiration. You need freshly updated listings and a website that is easy on the eyes. And you need to be able to find these things as quick as possible. Handy references, examples, and reviews are therefore both... Read Full Story

I'm psyched to be speaking on a panel this spring at the South By Southwest Interactive conference. The panel is on Tuesday, March 13, and is entitled Video Mashups: "Please Rolling Stones Don't Sue Us". read more Read Full Story

So I've decided to add a new feature to gPowered, the Google Mashup of the week. So many of these get created all the time using various Google APIs and services. Each week I'm going to search around find a dozen or so of the newest ones, pick out the one I like the best and why... with a possible runner up. As for when I'll be doing these, the new mashups will be posted sometime in between Saturday and Monday. Usually on the weekend unless I'm going away... like next weekend (Tennessee... Read Full Story

“Using our visual building environment, you can combine web services like Yahoo! Maps and Salesforce.com with desktop apps, like iTunes and Outlook. Build complete ‘composite apps’ in under an hour, and drop into the VBA IDE when you need to write a little code.” Certainly this is a good enterprise mashup story with its ability to pull together data from the desktop, behind the firewall and the types of APIs listed here. http://fucc.blogspot.com Read Full Story